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The C.M.S. is a very complex machine but it can be controlled by only an expert of machines.
Hopefully Chris is a talented pilot, and he is ready for the missions!
'This roadtrip is going to be great!', they had said.
Well, here I was, driving down a seemingly endless road in Kansas, and had been doing so for over two hours. I could hardly remember the last time I touched the wheel - this road just kept going straight ahead with not even the slightest hint of a curve. The scenery was no better and could be summed up in one word: plains. Green, flat, never-ending plains. Sure, ahead you had the majestic outline of the Rockies, and yes, it seemed to be pretty close. But it had already seemed close two hours ago. Like a mirage, taunting you with the promise of something better just to remain out of reach, and at this point I had stopped hoping.
Behind me, eight of my travel companions were all snoozing. Odd, since it was only mid-afternoon, but it seemed this environment had a sedative effect on everyone, not just me. Next to me sat my designated map reader who was the only reason I had not yet gone crazy. There was obviously no map reading to be done. Here there was only one direction: straight ahead. To his credit, he had instead taken it upon himself to keep me occupied and we had had some pretty interesting conversations. Ultimately though, even he had been reduced to just sitting there staring blindly into the distance. We were two friends suffering together in this seemingly static nightmare.
But wait! Surely the mountians were closer now? And we could even spot some of the hills coming up. This was it! It had to be! Yes, the road started to bend, and soon we found ourselves cruising through the foothills! The road flowing with the terrain around it - something new to see around every corner. And trees! Glorious trees!
I looked over at my fellow companion with a smile and he was smiling too. Finally we had some enjoyable driving ahead of us! Our perserverence had paid off!
- 'Good job Emil' I heard a voice from the back. 'Pull over as soon as you can and we'll switch drivers'.
It seemed I was destined to enjoy the foothills through a heavily tinted window in the back of an overcrowded van instead of of having the pleasure of driving through this wonderful landscape.
This was from a road trip I took in university with some friends, and although perhaps a bit exaggerated here, the road through Kansas into Colorado is certainly not the most exciting driving to be had ;) Boring driving aside, the trip was loads of fun and I would love to go back with the family some time. But yeah, I'm a trees and mountains kinda guy, and open landscapes, though pretty in its own way, is not where I feel at home. Trees please!
A couple of microscale jets, a regular fighter on the left and a stealth one on the right. This is another update of a photo from 2010.
This week was supposed to be a break from Lego. Instead, I lasted 2 days. Oh well.
Since Brickworld, I've been wanting to do something in Micropolis-scale. No idea what the large building houses. Didn't really think about it when I built it. The coffee shop is just a coffee shop.
Artistic view. While moving things around to take photos I happen to look down and thought this view looked interesting.
Everybody loves the 2-T Twin Pod racer! The 2-T Twin Pod racer is billion/philosopher Nathan Hildums personal GARC racer. It was dubbed T-T by Nathan’s daughter, such an innocent name for such a ruthless fighter. Nathan Hildums is not shy to bending the rules when he knows he can get away with it. T-T has been fined and suspended numerous times for “offensive interference” and “unlawful energy boosters (weapons!).” But that hasn’t stopped her from winning a few races back in the [3061] season. T-T was built from two F-222 Earthen starfighters now permanently fused together. Her engines have also been modified to an exceptional degree; she is nowhere near the fastest or [acceleratorest] racer but she is arguably the nimblest, agilest, maneuverable racer. It was said that during her testing fazes she was able shoot the Gondelloudum canyon in less than 15 minutes! Until the last two seasons T-T has been piloted Nathan Hildums himself and whomever he could find as a co-pilot, but now he has given up his position as pilot to his son-in-law who is crazier then him… In all her history T-T has never won a race and the lowest she’s come in the rankings is 43rd place. Regardless T-T is always a crowd favorite picking a fight with anyone and everyone – and usually winning the fight.
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Inspired from one of my past GARC's, the Albatross and Lego gorilla hands.
Ma ville en miniature, grosse prise de tête! Du coup admiration au max pour les afols qui pratiquent le microscale!
This is a ship I've been working on quite a while. It has a full interior which is almost the same as my old 5 foot wide ship, with the exception of the power distributor, the thruster rooms, and the elevator. While it has retracting landing gear it does not have retracting guns as it is too small for that. It is 1645 pieces and is 14.3 inches wide.
landing gear gif: i.imgur.com/6jnOLfJ.gifv.
There is also instructions found here: drive.google.com/open?id=1pDRtfJzauYlqN0gJqibl8QVSK5Na-ZCZ
edit: nearly forgot the turn around: i.imgur.com/twisAef.gifv
1:300 scale model of the eureka tower, Melbourne's highest building. This stands 1 metre tall (a little smaller than the Eiffel tower) and consists of 4 main sections. Photo by Shannon Ocean www.flickr.com/photos/10104652@N06/
More Photos, plus some progress shots here
Trying to figure out what to replace the bat-fins with lead to the idea of using the Unikitty tail instead. This quick microscale was the result of trying to figure out how that piece could work in that context.
This is a custom imperial base I built in micro-scale (roughly in scale with the 75329 Trench Run). The microfigs are technically a bit to big for the actual scale of the base, but it's pretty close.
It features a front gate with an elevated landing platform and a back gate that leads to the surrounding wilderness. The landing platform can accommodate most small to medium-sized imperial ships, up to and including a Gozanti-class cruiser.
The interior if the base is sized to fit the standard set of Imperial vehicles, including AT-ATs and TIE fighters, and includes boarding gantries for both.
The design of the base came from a number of different sources
- The landing platform was originally inspired by the Endor platforms from ROTJ, but takes most of its design from the cliffside base in The Mandalorian S2E2 "The Siege" and the Imperial Base on Zeffo from Jedi: Fallen Order.
- The command center pulls from those two locations as well, plus general imperial starship bridges, especially the Class 546 Arquitens.
- Most of the interior is based on Imperial Starship hangars, especially the ISD hangar from Squadrons. Getting the angled design of the floor to work was quite interesting.
The wagons and loco can now be coupled to form a train. The coupling links overlap and a link pin is dropped through to hold the wagons together as a train.
I had a blast building these ships with my little bros. It was hard because we've never really had the experience of building at micro scale, but it was fun! I think however, that some of the ships are cooler in our head than they are in real life haha
Created by a student in one of my LEGO Micro Design classes.
I'm pretty sure that the student was inspired by a photo of Janey Red Brick's Floating City.
Here you can see the arts spire, Hammer Hall, the Yarra (more blue than Brown in this model) and Alexandra Gardens.
More Photos can be seen here www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=366690
Photo by Shannon Ocean www.flickr.com/photos/10104652@N06/
A commission I did a few years ago for Elemental in their old building. Sam also asked for the rest of the Broadway block face.
In the beginning of space travel, the ranges of FTL travel were limited to the drives themselves. As time went on, drives became more advanced and ships began to rely more on fuel. Captains had to pack their cargo holds with fuel or find somewhere to stop and refill.
Out on the Galactic Rim (where a hold full of cargo is an explosive possibility) independently minded people have been quick to take advantage. Like the hermit crabs of old Earth, purveyors of these refuelling depots find a suitable rock, burrow inside, set up basic life support and open as a going concern.
Captains usually set themselves up in very densely populated asteroid belts and have the ability to shut down all beacons and power and become undetectable at a moment's notice. The threat of fuel pirates are an ever present one and depot captains often contract mercenaries for protection during times of local upheaval.